Over dit boek
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XXXII. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 1689–1762 .
1. Adrianople (from a Letter to Mr. Pope)
A Procession to a Turkish Camp
3. A German Court
4. Advice on the Education of a Grandchild
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XXXIII. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHES-
TERFIELD. 1694-1773 ·
The State of France in 1753
2. Casuistry and Common Sense
3. Good Manners and Good Company
4. Affectation
5. Johnson's Dictionary
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30
32
35
38
43
44
XXXIV. HENRY FIELDING. 1707-1754
The Rescue of a Kitten
The Sea Captain
3. Good Breeding in the first half of the Eighteenth
Century
4. The Migration of Souls
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XXXVI. DAVID HUME. 1711—1776
1. Eloquence in Ancient and Modern Times
The Virtues of Cheerfulness and of Magnanimity
3. Of the Association of Ideas
4. On the Origin of Ideas
5. William and the Norman Conquest
6. State of Civil Institutions at the end of the Reign of
Richard the Third
XXXVII. LAURENCE STERNE. 1713-1768 .
The House of Mourning and the House of Feasting
The good and ill of Travelling
3. The Length of Life
103
106
109
4. Shimei
XXXVIII. HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. 1717-
1797 .
115
The Fern or Churn-owl
Earth-worms
3. An Idiot boy at Selborne
4. The Sand Martin
5. Instinct
6. The Motions of Birds
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135
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XL. ADAM SMITH.
1723-1790
138
139
I. The comforts of life owing to Co-operation and the
Division of Labour
2. Expenditure which adds to the Wealth of a Nation
3. Of the different employment of capitals
4. The Equality of Human Lots
5. The Exactness of the Rules of Justice
141
145
148
151
The Political Condition of Sweden, France, and Holland 170
2. Dr. Primrose in Prison
171
3. Indecencies of Antigallican feeling
173
4. A General Election
175
5. The Sagacity of the Spider
177
6. Dr. Primrose the Monogamist
180
7. On National Prejudices
183
XLIII. EDMUND BURKE. 1729–1797 .
186
1. Peroration of the Speech on Conciliation with America. 188
The Decay of Chivalrous Sentiment
191
3. On the Death of his Son
193
4. The Devastation of the Carnatic
195
5. Charles James Fox .
197
6. On his Retirement previous to the General Election
7. Lord Chatham .
8. A Peroration
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211
XLIV. WILLIAM COWPER. 1731--1800
His Life at Olney
Time an Enemy and a Friend
3. His two Goldfinches .
4. Occupations of Life before the Flood
5. Public and Private Education
6. Johnson's Lives of the Poets
220
221
XLV. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737—1794 :
The Age of the Antonines .
Disbelief of Paganism prevalent in the Roman World 223
3. The Emperor Julian .
225
4. Mahomet.
229
5. The Rise, Progress, and Completion of the great Work. 235
XLVI. SIR PHILIP FRANCIS — JUNIUS. 1740—1818 .
242
I. From a Letter to the Duke of Grafton
To the Printer of the Public Advertizer
3. To his Grace the Duke of Bedford
4. To the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield
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247
250
252
XLVII. WILLIAM SCOTT, LORD STOWELL. 1745-1836 · 258
The contract of Marriage .
259
2. Places, and Rites, of Sepulture
260
3. The Story of an Unhappy Marriage
261
4. On Western and Eastern Society
5. Duty of the Judge in Questions of International Law 263
6. The Law of Marriage
264
1.
The rapidity of Thought in Interpreting Language
Attention and Memory
3. The Origin of Language
4. The Idea of Beauty
5. On the Culture of the Imaginative Faculty .
